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Friday, March 2, 2012

Planning Fight with The Night on Campus

I was in charge of putting on EUOC's Fight with the Night event at Riccarton (Heriot-Watt's campus) last night. It was a great experience in which I learnt a lot. Firstly I started just by getting to know campus. Ran some old sprint courses, had Colm plan me some other training, and just went running around. The issue with having done this is that I kept finding places in which I thought "Oh I could put a control there!" "That would be a cool control location". It also lead to me really wanting to update the map. Sadly though I never got around to learning how to update maps but probably for the better as in the last few months the University has pulled down many trees on campus.When it came to actually planning the courses I was a bit nervous to be honest. It was probably only the 3rd or 4th set of courses I had planned and the first here in the UK. I wanted them to be really good and people enjoy themselves. Well between that and too many places I wanted to put controls I was having a few issues. Thank fully Colm looked at my draft and came to the rescue in making the courses better. And sounds like people really enjoyed them selves.

There were two courses. Short 2.6km with 16 controls and 10 runners. Long 4.9km and 30 controls and 26 runners.

Here are the results:Short

Place

Time

Name

1

23:50

Ann Haley

2

25:40

Craig Woodger

3

25:48

Rachel Kirkland

4

27:22

Val Finch

5

28:18

Les Dalglesh

6

34:14

R Web

7

36:14

Margret Dalglesh

8

38:07

Janice Nisbet

9

47:32

Bill Gold

10

53:33

Brian Miller

Long

Place

Time

Name

1

30:46

Oleg

2

32:58

Philipp Von Arx

3

36:03

Simon Gardner

4

36:15

Andrew Lindsay

5

39:12

Andrew Dalglesh

6

40:38

Mark Wood

7

40:42

Rebecca Harding

8

43:58

Heather Thomson

9

45:48

John Ellis

10

45:51

Jo Shepherd

11

46:36

Mark Rove

12

49:20

Stephen Mcharg

13

50:17

Isla Simmons

14

50:20

Tony Loultson

15

51:22

Tim Kieniewicz

16

51:58

Marhoch Hamilton-Jones

17

52:10

Jack Baker

18

54:28

Lauren Eyre

19

55:05

Kirstin Maxwell

20

55:52

Crawford Lindsay

21

57:50

John Mckendrick

22

58:58

Peter Gardner

23

59:13

Heather Kiniewicz

24

1:02:54

Ted Finch

25

Mp

Laura Ramstena

26

Mp

Sam Kilferd

Both Maps:Short

Long

I want to say thank you to Simon, Isla, and Marhoch for picking up controls for me. and a Special thanks to Ross and Quiche from Heriot-Watts athletics club for helping me at the start and finish. I'll get the athletics club to actually go at on a course at some point!

So main thing I learned from this is that I need to just draw up more courses for practice and figure out what makes a good course. Also I would love to learn to do map updates!

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I'm a Chemical engineering and Sport Scholar student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland. I love orienteering and running fast through terrain! I am on the Standing USA Senior Orienteering Team